ANSWERS

1. Grover's Mill ("The War of the Worlds" was broadcast by Orson Welles)

Newspapers at the time made the panic sound much bigger than it really was. Most historians now think only a small number of listeners were genuinely fooled.

2. Tsar Bomba

3. George Foreman, in the "Rumble in the Jungle" (the boxer was Muhammad Ali)

4. Henry VII

5. Rough surfaces such as leather (it was too coarse for writing letters)

6. The October Manifesto. The parliament was the Duma.

The October Manifesto is dated 17 October 1905 in the Russian calendar of the time, which is 30 October in today's calendar.

7. Mudros (on the island of Lemnos)

8. 1922 (the dictator was Benito Mussolini)

9. The kidney

10. Quebec. It voted narrowly against independence (by about 50.6 per cent to 49.4).

11. John Adams

12. Ezra Pound

13. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The character is Mrs Malaprop.

14. Henry Winkler

15. Diego Maradona

16. Charles Atlas

17. Alfred Sisley

18. Nat Turner

19. Grace Slick

20. Louis Malle